The liquid and supercritical fluid states of matter (2020)
Book
Proctor, J. (2020). The liquid and supercritical fluid states of matter. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429491443

This book addresses graduate students and researchers wishing to better understand the liquid and supercritical fluid states of matter, presenting a single cohesive treatment of the liquid and supercritical fluid states using the gas-like and solid-l... Read More about The liquid and supercritical fluid states of matter.

Finite element model updating using in-situ experimental data (2020)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2020). Finite element model updating using in-situ experimental data. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 489, 115675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115675

Conventional model updating methods are based on frequency response functions (FRFs) and/or modal parameters estimates obtained from freely suspended, or sometimes rigidly constrained, sub-structures. These idealised boundary conditions are however... Read More about Finite element model updating using in-situ experimental data.

Experimental investigation of the residual behaviour of damaged masonry arch structures (2020)
Journal Article
Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2020). Experimental investigation of the residual behaviour of damaged masonry arch structures. Structures, 27, 2500-2512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2020.08.008

New masonry arch bridges are rarely constructed as part of modern transport networks, however they continue to remain an integral part of modern civil infrastructure due to their overall resilience. This resilience has led to extremely long service l... Read More about Experimental investigation of the residual behaviour of damaged masonry arch structures.

Privacy Enhancing Technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox : taxonomy and survey (2020)
Journal Article
Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., & Belguith, S. (2020). Privacy Enhancing Technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox : taxonomy and survey. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 171, 102807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102807

Personal data are often collected and processed in a decentralized fashion, within different contexts. For instance, with the emergence of distributed applications, several providers are usually correlating their records, and providing personalized... Read More about Privacy Enhancing Technologies for solving the privacy-personalization paradox : taxonomy and survey.

Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge (2020)
Journal Article
Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Greaney, S. (2020). Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge. Journal of Archaeological Science, 122, 105218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105218

With social rituals usually involving sound, an archaeological understanding of a site requires the acoustics to be assessed. This paper demonstrates how this can be done with acoustic scale models. Scale modelling is an established method in archite... Read More about Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge.

Environmental noise levels in hospital settings : a rapid review of measurement techniques and implementation in hospital settings (2020)
Journal Article
Wallis, R., Harris, E., Lee, H., Davies, W., & Astin, F. (2020). Environmental noise levels in hospital settings : a rapid review of measurement techniques and implementation in hospital settings. Noise and Health, 21(102), 200-216

Background: Hospitals provide treatment to improve patient health and well-being but the characteristics of the care environment receive little attention. Excessive noise at night has a negative impact on in-patient health through disturbed sleep. To... Read More about Environmental noise levels in hospital settings : a rapid review of measurement techniques and implementation in hospital settings.

Experimental and theoretical confirmation of an orthorhombic phase transition in niobium at high pressure and temperature (2020)
Journal Article
Errandonea, D., Burakovsky, L., Preston, D., MacLeod, S., Santamaría-Perez, D., Chen, S., …Mezouar, M. (2020). Experimental and theoretical confirmation of an orthorhombic phase transition in niobium at high pressure and temperature. communications materials, 1, 60. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-00058-2

Compared to other body-centered cubic (bcc) transition metals, Nb has been the subject of fewer compression studies and there are still aspects of its phase diagram which are unclear. Here, we report a combined theoretical and experimental study of N... Read More about Experimental and theoretical confirmation of an orthorhombic phase transition in niobium at high pressure and temperature.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Acoustic metamaterial for low frequency sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes (2020)
Journal Article
Brooke, D., Umnova, O., Leclaire, P., & Dupont, T. (2020). Acoustic metamaterial for low frequency sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 485, 115585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115585

Acoustic metamaterial absorbers have been built and tested with focus on low frequency airborne sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes. The absorbers are made up of a series of piled up flat cavities, separated by thin walls and traverse... Read More about Acoustic metamaterial for low frequency sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes.

Intelligibility vs. comprehension : understanding quality of accessible next-generation audio broadcast (2020)
Journal Article
accessible next-generation audio broadcast. Universal Access in the Information Society, 20(4), 691-699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-020-00741-8

For traditional broadcasting formats, imple-mentation of accessible audio strategies for hard of hear-ing people have used a binary, intelligibility-based ap-proach. In this approach sounds are categorized eitheras speech, contributing to compreh... Read More about Intelligibility vs. comprehension : understanding quality of accessible next-generation audio broadcast.

Concrete electrical resistivity at varied water, chloride contents and porosity – experiment, modelling & application (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Oleiwi, H., & Nan, X. (2020). Concrete electrical resistivity at varied water, chloride contents and porosity – experiment, modelling & application. Advanced materials letters (Online), 11(7), 20071536. https://doi.org/10.5185/amlett.2020.071536

Understanding and characterizing the relationship between the electrical resistivity and the major influencing factors of the concrete have been all the time a topical research in relation to structural durability. This paper reports an experimental... Read More about Concrete electrical resistivity at varied water, chloride contents and porosity – experiment, modelling & application.

A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Mrabet, H., Belguith, S., Alhomoud, A., & Jemai, A. (2020). A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis. Sensors, 20(13), 3625

The Internet of Things (IoT) is leading today’s digital transformation. Relying on a combination of technologies, protocols, and devices such as wireless sensors and newly developed wearable and implanted sensors, IoT is changing every aspect of dail... Read More about A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis.

Movies emotional analysis using textual contents (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Kayhani, A., Meziane, F., & Chiky, R. (2020, June). Movies emotional analysis using textual contents. Presented at 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany

In this paper, we use movies and series subtitles and applied text mining and Natural Language Processing methods to evaluate emotions in videos. Three different word lexicons were used and one of the outcomes of this research is the generation of a... Read More about Movies emotional analysis using textual contents.

Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate (2020)
Journal Article
Augusthus Nelson, L., Al-Allaf, M., & Weekes, L. (2020). Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate. Composite Structures, 251, 112956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112596

In this paper, a set of explicit theoretical derivations from a generalised bond-slip model for an epoxy bonded fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet to concrete are presented. The derivations address the maximum bond resistance, load-slip response,... Read More about Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate.

Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings : response surface analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Kaushik, A., Mohemmed, A., Tumula, D., & Ebohon, J. (2020). Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings : response surface analysis. Building and Environment, 180, 107021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107021

Thermal environment is one of the main factors that influence occupants' comfort and their productivity in office buildings. There is ample research that outlines this relationship between thermal comfort and occupant productivity. However, there is... Read More about Effect of thermal comfort on occupant productivity in office buildings : response surface analysis.

Design of supercritical low-Reynolds number airfoils for fixed-wing flight on Mars (2020)
Journal Article
Sugar-Gabor, O., & Koreanschi, A. (2020). Design of supercritical low-Reynolds number airfoils for fixed-wing flight on Mars. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 33(5), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AS.1943-5525.0001166

Aerodynamic shape optimization for the high-subsonic low-Reynolds number flow regime represents an area of on-going research. The interaction between supercritical compressible flow and laminar boundary layer separation is not well understood due to... Read More about Design of supercritical low-Reynolds number airfoils for fixed-wing flight on Mars.

Natural language processing and information systems : 25th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24–26, 2020, proceedings (2020)
Book
(2020). E. Métais, F. Meziane, H. Horacek, & P. Cimiano (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems : 25th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24–26, 2020, proceedings. Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51310-8

This volume contains the papers presented at NLDB 2020, the 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems held June 24–26, 2020, as a video conference at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligenc... Read More about Natural language processing and information systems : 25th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24–26, 2020, proceedings.

Outcomes from applying the inverted classroom to a first year structures module (2020)
Journal Article
Haynes, B., & Currie, N. (2020). Outcomes from applying the inverted classroom to a first year structures module. Structural engineer (London. 1924), 98(5), 8-15

The Institution of Structural Engineers has recently invested considerable eff ort in the thorny problem of how to improve understanding of structural behaviour among undergraduate students. This paper, based on a winning entry to the Institution’... Read More about Outcomes from applying the inverted classroom to a first year structures module.

The design, kinematics and torque analysis of the self-bending soft contraction actuator (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2020). The design, kinematics and torque analysis of the self-bending soft contraction actuator. Actuators open access journal, 9(2), e33. https://doi.org/10.3390/act9020033

This article presents the development of a self-bending contraction actuator (SBCA) through analysis of its structure, kinematics, and torque formulas, and then explores its applications. The proposed actuator has been fabricated by two methods to pr... Read More about The design, kinematics and torque analysis of the self-bending soft contraction actuator.

The characterization of chloride effect on concrete water sorption and its application in the modelling of concrete conditions in tidal zones (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Oleiwi, H., Wang, C., Xiang, N., & Geng, J. (2020). The characterization of chloride effect on concrete water sorption and its application in the modelling of concrete conditions in tidal zones. Construction and Building Materials, 253, 119074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.119074

Concrete exposed to cyclic wetting and drying in salty water conditions is thought to be subjected to an accelerated ingress of chloride from the outside environment, and prone to a worsening deterioration process inside. Additionally, there is an os... Read More about The characterization of chloride effect on concrete water sorption and its application in the modelling of concrete conditions in tidal zones.